[CentOS-devel] The CentOS Release Number Typography

Karanbir Singh

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Fri Jun 6 08:23:39 UTC 2014


On 06/06/2014 04:47 AM, Keith Keller wrote:
> On 2014-06-06, Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> I think of release names as similar to DNS. Not all of us can memorize
>> IP addresses. A release name is friendlier to other humans. :)
> 
> The difficulty I have with release names is that, unlike IP addresses,
> releases are ordered.  I know that CentOS 6 came after CentOS 5.  If
> software says "requires CentOS Churro or higher", is CentOS Donut
> sufficient? 

and unlike DNS, we dont have 4 Billion to consider ( and thats v4 ) and
typicall shorter to type + machine processable.

- KB

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